XRR sling ideas
- Thread starter Leroy
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bonner1040
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- Boston
Putting 1/2" SB into 5/8" tenex isnt a good idea.
frashdog
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- Champlain valley, adirondack coast
do elaborate...please
John Uselding
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- Central Iowa
If I'm following this right, the tenex is buried completely through the length of the sling...? Does this make the sling pretty stiff?
John Uselding
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- Central Iowa
Thanks. Nice work, I'll be trying one for myself. Rocket Sling!
There's two t's in Rockett!
I'm definitely building one of these this week. Just need to make a run for the material. I'll post up my Rockett Sling once it's done!
John Uselding
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- Central Iowa
Right.... Rockett Sling!
If the tail eye was straight bury instead of a Locking Brummel, you could open it and close it by pulling on the Large X-Ring on the double ring side. With that capability, you could open it to pass the rings then equalize and cinch them down in a choke, and you could even install an X-Ring into it if you wanted a basket configuration, again, by pulling on the Large X-Ring to tighten it before hanging.
I need to get to the splicing table...fast!!!
Get a picture of that setup when you've made it if you can pease.
Will do! I'll begin working on it tomorrow evening. We've had amazing working weather lately and I just can't stop myself from being out there. If only the sun could hang up there just a bit longer, right!?
Ok, I'm out of the rings that I wanted to use so I made this. I had to dismantle an older balancer for this project since it was all I had. I'll be ordering more of everything soon because this has my gears turning. I've already taken it a bit too far, but only in my head. I had to stop here and regroup.
What's here is a basket style that can be converted in seconds into a whoopie by just pulling out the eye with the Beast ring in it and adjusting to your desired size within the range. So, it goes from retrievable basket to choked large ring very easily and those are the two things I like to have the most while in the crown. In fact, I'd like to make a few more of these in different sizes and lengths. I'll figure that after playing with this one for a while.
One mod I can already see doing is adding chafe sleeve to the adjustable eye at a length that still allows a proper choke on the Beast Ring, but would protect all else when used in choke w/o the ring installed.
Let me know what you think...wouldn't be surprised if it has already been done!
What's here is a basket style that can be converted in seconds into a whoopie by just pulling out the eye with the Beast ring in it and adjusting to your desired size within the range. So, it goes from retrievable basket to choked large ring very easily and those are the two things I like to have the most while in the crown. In fact, I'd like to make a few more of these in different sizes and lengths. I'll figure that after playing with this one for a while.
One mod I can already see doing is adding chafe sleeve to the adjustable eye at a length that still allows a proper choke on the Beast Ring, but would protect all else when used in choke w/o the ring installed.
Let me know what you think...wouldn't be surprised if it has already been done!
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- Perrysburg, Ohio, U.S.A.
Very nicely done oceans. What a beautiful piece there. Im curious what you used as whipping, im having a hard time figuring it out...
But looks great.
Thanks, Shawn. It's a Marlow Ropes throw line, but it has too much elongation to be really good for that so I had a spool knocking about the shop. It's pretty stuff to whip with.
So, what I need is another Large X-Ring and have that spliced in where the handle is on the adjuster, and chafe sleeve on the adjustable eye. This will give it the mega 3 ring basket config with 2 Large Rings and 1 Beast Ring. You'd also get a choked 2 Large Ring system.
You could easily make this in other sizes, too. Think 2 Beast Rings and 1 Large on 5/8" Tenex! It's such a flexible tool. With three of these alone, I could see a really capable rigging kit.
Do you often dangle the rings so low from the girth hitch for a reason?
No, just a demo photo
